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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9430250" data-attributes="member: 18">HELL YEAH.This is a much better take than any non-4E edition of D&amp;D, very much including 2014.As I started with 2E, this approach never made sense to me. The primary distinction between Cleric and Priest of a Specific Mythoi/Speciality Priest was that Clerics didn't have to worship a specific god, and were modelled after &quot;Holy Warriors&quot; (Templars, Sohei, etc.) rather than Priests. The rulebook even calls out that you could follow the general concept of Good or Evil, and the game works fine.Only in 3E did the specific god paradigm become mandatory, and I think D&amp;D became somewhat lesser for it. Especially as in a lot of settings none of those things are a &quot;known quantity&quot; (they barely are even in Greyhawk, and it's ironic you say that whilst being called Dragonlancer, where in Dragonlance the existence of Angels and Devils/Demons is somewhat... variable over the editions - certainly they aren't just strutting the lands like they are in the FR).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9430250, member: 18"] HELL YEAH. This is a much better take than any non-4E edition of D&D, very much including 2014. As I started with 2E, this approach never made sense to me. The primary distinction between Cleric and Priest of a Specific Mythoi/Speciality Priest was that Clerics didn't have to worship a specific god, and were modelled after "Holy Warriors" (Templars, Sohei, etc.) rather than Priests. The rulebook even calls out that you could follow the general concept of Good or Evil, and the game works fine. Only in 3E did the specific god paradigm become mandatory, and I think D&D became somewhat lesser for it. Especially as in a lot of settings none of those things are a "known quantity" (they barely are even in Greyhawk, and it's ironic you say that whilst being called Dragonlancer, where in Dragonlance the existence of Angels and Devils/Demons is somewhat... variable over the editions - certainly they aren't just strutting the lands like they are in the FR). [/QUOTE]

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